Why waste a perfectly hard drive when you could just do an unconditional format in DOS, it physically erases all data with little chance of getting it back. And if your really insecure, after unconditionally formatting, just run a program off a floppy disk to fill the whole drive with a checkerboard pattern, to eliminate and residual data magnification. If you ask me, this video is also LAME.
One thing: The physical Method (or "shredding" a drive) is only convenient on drives having aluminium platters. Those won't easily break. Some manufacturers (e.g. Hitachi) use or have used glass substrate platters coated with the data carrier metal. To destroy such a drive just hit it hard using a heavy hammer or let it fall hard to somewhere on a concrete floor. Just shake the drive for making sure the platters have broken into pieces afterwards.
The bestest most cooleriffic tool - I wiped oodles of discs in our ancient SCSI RAID array units with nothing but this tool - it can fit on a floppy, too!
you can still get data off the platter it is magnetically charge you made it so you can't use it or some lack job hacker get your data but a trained lab tech can recover about 90% of that drive if no magnetic fields effected the data the best way to destroy a HDD is the grind the platter to tiny pieces of metal that is the best way because it is a 100% chance that data cannot be recovered and who would think that metal shavings on the floor is a platter from a HDD
Also some people put a glass of water in the oven (saw many videos of putting unusual objects in the oven), Glass of water probably reduce arcs from damaging magnetron.
Other way is burning it.
or
Using powerful magnet.
Or cheapest /safest way is use bunch of batteries and fry its circuit board and or send current to the platters.
I thought that data could be taken off of the sections of hard drive that are still left. I could be wrong. If it were me, I'd do what they just did, beat it to oblivion with a hammer, microwave it, and... I don't know... dunk it in water? I'd melt it if I had the resources, but for what I have on my hard drive: No one's hacking into my bank account, LOL.
@computerworld You realise you dont need to use this method on a maxador. right? It destroys the data on its own ;D Gluck recovering anything cfrom maxador!
@culsunny yeah... however powerfull you want it, a format isnt that good. There is 'forensic' style software that will still be able to recover data after a formatting. If you got a rootkit virus, formatting wouldnt destroy it. That is the safe way to destroy data, physically break the drive
That won't do much. The data can still be recovered using certain tools. The FBI uses such tools to "sweep" the hard drives of computers that they confiscate. All you do when you delete stuff, is overwriting part of it. Overwriting is basically just "burning" more "bumps" on previously "burned" blocks, which are read as BITS (Binary Units). 8 bits is an Octet, or more commonly known as a Byte. Anyway, the tools they use allow them to see what could've been written on there based on the "bumps".
bend them a few times then viola! job done! i wouldent stand there for 10 minutes choping it with a chop saw
a waste of a saw blade if you ask me!
also there are many applications that will format the hdd at DoD 5220.22-M standards it can overwrite the hdd as many as six or more times and is goverment standards of data security
so you see you dont need to resort in busting the ass of a hdd
I saw on a youtube video about retrieving data, that if ANY of the 3 or four plates are misaligned, in any way, you data is irretrieveable. I would open the drive, move the plates around throw one in one garbage can, the other in another, the third in a neighbor's garbage etc etc....maybe that would work??
I think this is a great video from the best "Apple". Way ahead of the rest and still got a million miles to take the world ahead.Keep it Up and thank you Apple.
is that the method with those CD's that you burn the iso image on to, that take like 5 hours but they 100% completely remove everything. so it's like brandnew?
Why do you think government agencies shred hard drives before disposing of them? Google electron microscope data recovery. If the platter is even partially intact, data can be read off it.
very very stupid way, using a electromagnet does the job a lot better but every data is somehow recoverable! costs to recover the data on the hdd in this video will be about 50.00$ maybe and around 10% of the data is back.
best way to delete the data, melt the hard drive, in a pool of molten magnets.. absolute data destruction. all you will have is a pile of molten magnetic metal that will never give it's data away :)
you know you can just keep your hard drive for about 10 years aand then the files will be deleted by it's self even if it isn't hooked up to a computer
Hey guys I like your very instructive videos but can you please tell an absolute fool like me-I'm donating my comp to a charity after having removed the hard drive..they fix them up and sell them...but does it mean that absolutely no personal ifo remain anywhere on that comp after the hard-drive has been removed ?
Have you heard anything about the stuff the hard drives are made off?, Any?.... something about heavy metals/mercury/cadmium/lithium dangerous stuffs.... does any of these ring a bell up there folks???
As you are cutting the HD, you are heating it, vaporizing some of the stuff they are made off.... Take a guess how many mercury on your blood is potentialy dangerous.
Next time guys ... do some research and warn about it before some child gives it a try and then eat the rest of it.
That's true. Last time I had a drive that died on me I obviously couldn't get it to format (which is sufficient for me). I just used a heavy hammer on it for a few minutes and that did the job! :)
80% of all teenagers would have a nervous break down if they saw Miley Cyrus on top of a skyscraper about to jump. Copy and Paste if you are part of the 20% that would watch and start screaming, "Jump, bitch, jump!"
If you want to completely be sure there is no way to get the data you need to do something similar to this video, I personally prefer using a Drill and drilling a hole in it
I had an old 98 PC until 2003 (Then I got an XP PC) and the 98 computer sat in the closet until 2006 when I took it outside and beat the crap out of the HDD with a hammer...
Actually the data should still be retrievable. People have managed to salvage the data from hard drives from the shuttle Challenger and the hard drive was completely burnt down(seen pics of it)
the data is still retrievable.. given the enough money and equipment to do it. for example, a photo would take (much) less than a square millimeter of the disk. for secure destroying you should heat the hard drive above 1500 K.
why is it called 'removing the data from a hard drive and not' destroying the data on a hard drive'?! it just my friend has a maxtor external hard drive but its bust and we need to retreive the information off of it ne ideas?!
Sorry to spoil the fun... but you can still get date out of a harddrive sliced in 2... the magnetic disk in it still contains the date... if you are good (i wouldt know how to do it, but some people do) you could still retreive the files.
If you really want to get rid of the date, just burn the drive or something x)
i frankly believe that this video would be far funnier and cooler if they chopped up one another............wasting so much effort.....you might as well produce some drama!!!!
there are utilities that physically overright all data on the drive with random bits, do two or three passes nobody will be able to retrieve anything off of there.
i ave really bad and harmfull data that are pernicious and i will really like to modified.how can i really get reed of it.have been pased to the HARD DISK.thank you
Physically destroying a hard drive does not destroy the data, unless you were to set it on fire or melt it down or something. It just makes the hard drive unusable. The data can still be recovered. There are 2 ways that I can think of destroying data: sanitizing and degaussing.
Degaussing is my preferred method, I use a couple of 250 pound pull neodymium magnets. another good way is to fill the thing with lye, if you use an AC degauss you can completely remove any data and still have the disk useable since it restores the disk to an un partitioned neutral
being cool and trying to be or look cool are two different things...
if you think making this video made you cool? I don't think so. If you're making this clip to try to look cool?!?! I wish you all the luck coz this video just made you look errrrr.... toopid
that wouldn't take away the data, a team of restorers can take the platters from the hard drive, put it back to gether, and get the fragments of data left, and retrieve most of the files because they only sawed it in half... best way to do it is to incenirate the drive...
but it is possible. if they just cut it in half, then the team would put it on a new spindle, and run it. yes some of the data would be corrupted, but with some good de-coruption software, you could get most of the files back. I have heard of people that put the hard drive in a box of super strong neodymium magnets, de-corupted the hard drive, and it actually booted up, and almost all of the files were there! (some of the large video files had pauses in them, but for the most part worked fine! )
It's not! Especially if the drive have multiple platters. If the platters are deferred from each other, more than a 1000th of a millimeter, no data will be recoverable!
In the teory, however, it will be possible to recover something, IF YOU COULD align the parts of the platter/platters...
no, each platter could individually be read, and then the information across that platters would be re-constructed. there is a reason why this process costs almost twenty thousand dollars.
but it is still possible, even with half of the platter.
also, the platters don't need to be physically aligned, just digitally. so that is also possible, and the files can still be read (for the most part). even a shattered platter can be re-constructed to work.
Have you ever talked to a hard drive rescue company?
Try to get a cheap hard drive, open it up, take out the platters, and ask your local (or not local) hard drive rescue company, if it's possible for them to read any data from them.
I have contacted them, and they said that they will be able to get the data.
Quote from their website:
"Recovery of crashed hard disks often involves replacing failed or DAMAGED components in a clean environment (Clean room class 100) and using specialized hardware and software tools to create the raw image."
That means that they could re-build the platters, and get the ting up and running, and with software, piece MOST of the data back together.
Its called a data scrambler, the same thing the dod uses
adamanthyz1 5 days ago
These people know how to remove their child por.n
herojohan88 1 week ago
dump the thing in water that get al f up big time
alienhddna 4 months ago
But will it blend?
Afinity96 4 months ago
do i recover it then?
i suppose duct tape would do!
pheeson 4 months ago
WRONG!!!! I got glue x)
Screwdriver1991 4 months ago
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spencercjohnson 5 months ago
Nah,just give it to your pet,it's worth it...xD
hackers09fr 6 months ago
I hate that machine.. one time the rotating disk breaks off chopping a chunk my friends ear nearly killed him by an inch..
ketobi 8 months ago
strong magnet will work also
NLterror6000 8 months ago
@NLterror6000 A VERY strong magnet.So strong that it's commercially unavailable!
gebass6 8 months ago
@gebass6 Dunno i think if u use one from an old speaker it would do the trick also
NLterror6000 8 months ago
bullshit just use a sledgehammer moron
ScottJamesLewisNJ 8 months ago
Why waste a perfectly hard drive when you could just do an unconditional format in DOS, it physically erases all data with little chance of getting it back. And if your really insecure, after unconditionally formatting, just run a program off a floppy disk to fill the whole drive with a checkerboard pattern, to eliminate and residual data magnification. If you ask me, this video is also LAME.
FACP07 8 months ago 2
i used a steam roller
MrSmithyistheman 11 months ago
One thing: The physical Method (or "shredding" a drive) is only convenient on drives having aluminium platters. Those won't easily break. Some manufacturers (e.g. Hitachi) use or have used glass substrate platters coated with the data carrier metal. To destroy such a drive just hit it hard using a heavy hammer or let it fall hard to somewhere on a concrete floor. Just shake the drive for making sure the platters have broken into pieces afterwards.
berndpfe 11 months ago
would have bein better if you busted out a fucking cement saw and just let the bitch eat
SkoalBoy93 1 year ago
Darik's Boot And Nuke....
The bestest most cooleriffic tool - I wiped oodles of discs in our ancient SCSI RAID array units with nothing but this tool - it can fit on a floppy, too!
misturchips 1 year ago
well I tried a program called [Data Shredder] which is completely safe & totally amazing
I removed all Unwanted Folders & files from the PC Permanently,
It's very easy to be used & it's totally free.
U can try from :- w w w(dot)Robust(dot)ws
Have fun :D
xdhncv 1 year ago
Since 2003....
computerabuse 1 year ago
Nice
TheIcecoldkidd 1 year ago
so this is not lame or what?
atiraedeon123 1 year ago
demagnetizer is the best way to kill information on a hdd.... and much faster...
kervs2102 1 year ago
Guess the saw will work. The last time I did this I threw it on concrete several times and then hit it hard with a hammer. Seemed to work.
SteveHovland 1 year ago
FBI Still go to find a way to find those cp on that hard-drive ;)
iqao 1 year ago
or you could just drill it 2x
nullwii 1 year ago
you can get data off the flopy in that hard drive put a realy small amount is missing.
forbbbi 1 year ago
get an MRI take hard drive with u end of story
Brassass28 1 year ago
extract the platters and if they are composite/glass just shatter them on pavement.
chikotube 1 year ago
you can still get data off the platter it is magnetically charge you made it so you can't use it or some lack job hacker get your data but a trained lab tech can recover about 90% of that drive if no magnetic fields effected the data the best way to destroy a HDD is the grind the platter to tiny pieces of metal that is the best way because it is a 100% chance that data cannot be recovered and who would think that metal shavings on the floor is a platter from a HDD
thewootersnerd 1 year ago
People microwaving a HD uses a old microwave.
Also some people put a glass of water in the oven (saw many videos of putting unusual objects in the oven), Glass of water probably reduce arcs from damaging magnetron.
Other way is burning it.
or
Using powerful magnet.
Or cheapest /safest way is use bunch of batteries and fry its circuit board and or send current to the platters.
zaxtor 1 year ago
what the F*** are you hiding lol
GrantLogan2 1 year ago
I thought that data could be taken off of the sections of hard drive that are still left. I could be wrong. If it were me, I'd do what they just did, beat it to oblivion with a hammer, microwave it, and... I don't know... dunk it in water? I'd melt it if I had the resources, but for what I have on my hard drive: No one's hacking into my bank account, LOL.
GeekingForJesus 1 year ago
@GeekingForJesus Microwaving a hard drive sounds like a good way to destroy the microwave.
computerworld 1 year ago 2
@computerworld get a cheap one from goodwill
irulethe70s 1 year ago
@computerworld or thermite
irulethe70s 1 year ago
@computerworld You realise you dont need to use this method on a maxador. right? It destroys the data on its own ;D Gluck recovering anything cfrom maxador!
iToasterman 6 months ago
lol, ya nuts
fukyaimback 1 year ago
lol, a new way to partition your drive.
derick1259 1 year ago 2
Microwave works best
jpfourie2020 1 year ago
partition magic Saw edition :D
radu310589 1 year ago 26
should have used lubricant
1111Davo1 1 year ago
Fail.
Themoo316 1 year ago
no wonder it went out on you...its a maxtor
xXTaNodel408Xx 1 year ago
Simply drill a few holes in the hard drive.
joenamherst 1 year ago
it'd take me an hour just to set up the saw. i find it much quicker to just throw it into a brick wall!
mudassirul 1 year ago
wrong; dip shit!
301001082 1 year ago
HAAA! Killing an ant using a M47!
chewonnwong 1 year ago
Well that video was kinda lame too.
kd8fki 1 year ago
You can still retrieve the data off of those hard drives... It's expensive to do, but still possible.
HauntKettle 1 year ago
yup
Armaangandevia1 1 year ago
@HauntKettle he chopped the disk itself in half. so i doubt that.
KiillWiithMe 1 year ago
Some versions of the "format" command doesn't really erase the data.
Data are left intact while the command just erases the file table and checks for bad sectors.
Keep this in mind next time you think formatting are safe.
sysghost 1 year ago
Don't breathe that stuff. Highly toxic
spudw2k 1 year ago
we have a word called format !
culsunny 1 year ago
@culsunny yeah... however powerfull you want it, a format isnt that good. There is 'forensic' style software that will still be able to recover data after a formatting. If you got a rootkit virus, formatting wouldnt destroy it. That is the safe way to destroy data, physically break the drive
KHMadMan 1 year ago
sometimes format isn't good enough.
boot n nuke
spudw2k 1 year ago
the expensive way is to use a deguasser.
a device that has strong magnetic field that destroy all data...
we destroy data everyday, 100 harddisk a day
ecogreensingapore 2 years ago
Hm, how to destroy your personal data? Format?
dalek22 2 years ago
That won't do much. The data can still be recovered using certain tools. The FBI uses such tools to "sweep" the hard drives of computers that they confiscate. All you do when you delete stuff, is overwriting part of it. Overwriting is basically just "burning" more "bumps" on previously "burned" blocks, which are read as BITS (Binary Units). 8 bits is an Octet, or more commonly known as a Byte. Anyway, the tools they use allow them to see what could've been written on there based on the "bumps".
guerrillaman69 2 years ago
Geeze, how boring and lame can you get. Total waste of time.
scottedwardsmith 2 years ago
idiots...
kalasnikov47 2 years ago
idiot v americe..!
MrPixel636 2 years ago
just take it apart and remove the platters
bend them a few times then viola! job done! i wouldent stand there for 10 minutes choping it with a chop saw
a waste of a saw blade if you ask me!
also there are many applications that will format the hdd at DoD 5220.22-M standards it can overwrite the hdd as many as six or more times and is goverment standards of data security
so you see you dont need to resort in busting the ass of a hdd
well if you want to keep the drive intact
puggster 2 years ago 3
dont you guys think these guys have a lil to much time in there hands
spriteinmacup56 2 years ago
i just slide mine into a PC and it spoiled in 5 minutes... much more convenient =)
dinggley 2 years ago
best way to destroy it is by asking us! we shred can shred over 200 hard drives an hour
MISECURE 2 years ago
i just let mine on fire in my bbq and it worked the disks were completly fried !!!
RebelKid692 2 years ago
nice lol
bobcashflow50 2 years ago
if there is any serfase that is untuched than you can get data off of it.
BSZanatsu 2 years ago
I saw on a youtube video about retrieving data, that if ANY of the 3 or four plates are misaligned, in any way, you data is irretrieveable. I would open the drive, move the plates around throw one in one garbage can, the other in another, the third in a neighbor's garbage etc etc....maybe that would work??
Bertminator 2 years ago
use thermite to melt it ,100% secure ;)
supermico 2 years ago 19
thermite pwnes !!!!!!!!!!! and your wrong not 100% secure .. 1,000% secure and gone lmfao !!!! and far cheaper then renting a saw like that =]
Stuna2150 2 years ago
@supermico Ok.I'll bite.Where can you buy thermite.Is it's legal to possess?
gebass6 8 months ago
The data would still be easily recoverable with a proper lab enviroment.
The safest way to destroy data would probably be a neodynium magnet.
Djhg2000 2 years ago 4
True.
id say
Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory.
Data is overwritten 35 times with carefully selected patterns, which makes it unrecoverable. Unfortunately, it also makes it time consuming.
Best way, with 0 requred tools..
evelutionz 2 years ago
I think this is a great video from the best "Apple". Way ahead of the rest and still got a million miles to take the world ahead.Keep it Up and thank you Apple.
janardhanreddy53 2 years ago
put it in a mac then it would blow itself up cause it hate's MAC's !!!
RebelKid692 2 years ago
YEP
BlackElitePwnage 2 years ago
they only real way is to incinerate it, data can be recovered off any intact platter.
Andyterranbase1 2 years ago
I do not agree. Plate are separated in two halfs. You can read data from the intacted zones.
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MISECURE 2 years ago
btw everyone, a magnet wont work. hard drives have the data written on them and it is read by the bumps the writing arm makes a.k.a. BINARY
navalwater123 2 years ago
Just use a magnet.
ZephyrChronicles 2 years ago
What a waste just format them with the dod method
bluebutdude1 2 years ago
is that the method with those CD's that you burn the iso image on to, that take like 5 hours but they 100% completely remove everything. so it's like brandnew?
AmH032uTuBe 2 years ago
No you format the harddrive so its usable again and not distroid
bluebutdude1 2 years ago
it was over 5 years old, so it would have been small.
And he wanted data gone....like totally and this is the only method thats 100% secure with no risk at all.
teddyAllah 2 years ago
No people don't know how to use computers so they abuse them it makes me sad
bluebutdude1 2 years ago
I agree with that but every way today isn't tottally safe, this is the only real way to destroy data and have fun.
teddyAllah 2 years ago
It takes 5 seconds to shred a hard drive, and at least 2 hours to overwrite it with the DOD method. Time is money.
yewutube 2 years ago
Yes but selling the harddrive makes lots of money and shredding it is wastefull
bluebutdude1 2 years ago
Why do you think government agencies shred hard drives before disposing of them? Google electron microscope data recovery. If the platter is even partially intact, data can be read off it.
yewutube 2 years ago
they got the mony for a new one and its cheaper to distroy and recycle the aluminum
szpara16 2 years ago
my method
SIMPLY BURN IT IN A BONFIRE
Grandpas kidney surgery photos poof gone
those un used game they burn good
even make smores with it
yum taste's like silicon!
hi234yes 2 years ago
still not good enough actually
7up221994 2 years ago
very very stupid way, using a electromagnet does the job a lot better but every data is somehow recoverable! costs to recover the data on the hdd in this video will be about 50.00$ maybe and around 10% of the data is back.
Shagron1349 2 years ago
Or just use a (strong) magnectic and hold it on you're hard disk for a while and it will be gone =] (not sure though)
darkwizzard70 2 years ago
ur gay
blakeward35 2 years ago
best way to delete the data, melt the hard drive, in a pool of molten magnets.. absolute data destruction. all you will have is a pile of molten magnetic metal that will never give it's data away :)
Hassasin195 2 years ago 3
...or you can just use Windows. Then the files will automatically be destroyed!
cbader92 2 years ago
you know you can just keep your hard drive for about 10 years aand then the files will be deleted by it's self even if it isn't hooked up to a computer
Anusarthi 2 years ago
or!!!!!!!!!!! u just keep the hard drive.....and use it as exter space on your current computer.
hello1221335 2 years ago
That's one weaksauce chop saw!
Heimerize 2 years ago 2
Hey guys I like your very instructive videos but can you please tell an absolute fool like me-I'm donating my comp to a charity after having removed the hard drive..they fix them up and sell them...but does it mean that absolutely no personal ifo remain anywhere on that comp after the hard-drive has been removed ?
Did I say I know nothing ?
mickeyde1000 2 years ago
do not worry
flash card, usb drive, cd, tape
just make shure you dont have another hard drive =)))
bitala 2 years ago
YOU MORONS!!!!! Tyrocl statement is so true. Do your research you idiots!!!!
mykylc 2 years ago
Have you heard anything about the stuff the hard drives are made off?, Any?.... something about heavy metals/mercury/cadmium/lithium dangerous stuffs.... does any of these ring a bell up there folks???
As you are cutting the HD, you are heating it, vaporizing some of the stuff they are made off.... Take a guess how many mercury on your blood is potentialy dangerous.
Next time guys ... do some research and warn about it before some child gives it a try and then eat the rest of it.
"Noobs!"
tyrocl 2 years ago 3
That's true. Last time I had a drive that died on me I obviously couldn't get it to format (which is sufficient for me). I just used a heavy hammer on it for a few minutes and that did the job! :)
falkon212 2 years ago
Don't be a bitch, encrypt your shit!
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ryanbinrichard 2 years ago
are you serious?
momtaz500 2 years ago
Isn't it possible to make the data irretrievable using a high powered magnet and passing it back and forth over the drive?
I do know that it is possible to destroy data by deletong said data, then writing other data in the space that held the data.
Rathorius 2 years ago
If you want to completely be sure there is no way to get the data you need to do something similar to this video, I personally prefer using a Drill and drilling a hole in it
rynoboy007 2 years ago
I had an old 98 PC until 2003 (Then I got an XP PC) and the 98 computer sat in the closet until 2006 when I took it outside and beat the crap out of the HDD with a hammer...
WindowsAndMacintosh 2 years ago
Actually the data should still be retrievable. People have managed to salvage the data from hard drives from the shuttle Challenger and the hard drive was completely burnt down(seen pics of it)
chieffw 2 years ago
what kind of crappy underpowered saw is that? sad really, get some real tools
grohlgrohlgrohl 2 years ago 4
Esta es la típica solución de una persona ignorante.
cybertecnicos 3 years ago
get off of youtube if you dont know how to fucking speak
virokill132 2 years ago
Yo sé hablar y escribir. También entiendo algo de inglés y veo que no eres muy educado que digamos...
cybertecnicos 2 years ago
va la cogida usted mismo
virokill132 2 years ago
i would not envy the task of retrieving any Data from tht disk..lol
redraz09 3 years ago
you could superglue it back together! :o
VisualTutorials 3 years ago 4
battery acid ftw
WyteRabbyt 3 years ago
idiot americans
cortexedge 3 years ago 4
Stupid people come in all nationalities.
XarisGuitars 2 years ago 5
the data is still retrievable.. given the enough money and equipment to do it. for example, a photo would take (much) less than a square millimeter of the disk. for secure destroying you should heat the hard drive above 1500 K.
caiocc12 3 years ago
couldn't you just melt everything?
DarthDarBinks 3 years ago
that is truly the only way to get rid of all the data.
firestormcomputers 3 years ago 3
use thermite works better then you end up with a puddle of melted metal they can tak those half disk adn get some infor from it.
mccunecp 3 years ago 3
There goes another perfectly good sawblade...
982Munchie 3 years ago 9
why is it called 'removing the data from a hard drive and not' destroying the data on a hard drive'?! it just my friend has a maxtor external hard drive but its bust and we need to retreive the information off of it ne ideas?!
jax876 3 years ago
Sir, where is your respirator?
jamesccostello 3 years ago
I was going to say that!
MonkeyLessThanThree 3 years ago
Or you could degauss it. But Thermite is the best way.
AbleDangerUndercover 3 years ago 2
can i tak out 2 hard drives and put them in my computer now
nerdboy123456 3 years ago
lame, crappy, and it took too long to saw it in half.
soggydrink 3 years ago
like to see u cut though near solid metal with a jr hacksaw :)
girlsdrinkfeck 3 years ago
its called a sledge hammer
Cmblues14 3 years ago 2
I would say the safest way would be to grind it to dust and send each individual grain on a different spaceship each going in a different direction.
ChickenAttackForce 3 years ago 3
Guttmann it.
AbleDangerUndercover 3 years ago 2
Guttman algorithm.
AbleDangerUndercover 3 years ago 2
Guttman and then do this.
imanerd36 3 years ago
I agree. Guttman then sledgehammer and/or saw it in half. Or quarters. :)
ManicPanic9000 3 years ago
Microwave it
kdoubt 3 years ago 3
WTF Who removed this video?
moose4computers 3 years ago
I wonder, can I bath it with ACID?
QuickCrusader 3 years ago
actually...the only 100% efficient way to destroy the data is to grind the drive into dust.
guiltyxxspark 3 years ago 3
Do it Tom Dickson style!
gschjetne 3 years ago
Sorry to spoil the fun... but you can still get date out of a harddrive sliced in 2... the magnetic disk in it still contains the date... if you are good (i wouldt know how to do it, but some people do) you could still retreive the files.
If you really want to get rid of the date, just burn the drive or something x)
Timvanhelsdingen 3 years ago
the new way to partisionate ur harddrive
84fh 3 years ago
i frankly believe that this video would be far funnier and cooler if they chopped up one another............wasting so much effort.....you might as well produce some drama!!!!
graphattic 3 years ago
I prefer the thermite method.
Seyeklopz 3 years ago
it's still recoverable LOL
ericlam2728 3 years ago
there are utilities that physically overright all data on the drive with random bits, do two or three passes nobody will be able to retrieve anything off of there.
enigmatically 3 years ago 3
i ave really bad and harmfull data that are pernicious and i will really like to modified.how can i really get reed of it.have been pased to the HARD DISK.thank you
alejandraadrianac 3 years ago
"MAX-TORE"?? It's Maxtor.
I guess he had to take extreme measures to hide any evidences of kiddy porn.
boamuro 3 years ago 4
Physically destroying a hard drive does not destroy the data, unless you were to set it on fire or melt it down or something. It just makes the hard drive unusable. The data can still be recovered. There are 2 ways that I can think of destroying data: sanitizing and degaussing.
gaz52 3 years ago
Degaussing is my preferred method, I use a couple of 250 pound pull neodymium magnets. another good way is to fill the thing with lye, if you use an AC degauss you can completely remove any data and still have the disk useable since it restores the disk to an un partitioned neutral
Zenodilodon 3 years ago
being cool and trying to be or look cool are two different things...
if you think making this video made you cool? I don't think so. If you're making this clip to try to look cool?!?! I wish you all the luck coz this video just made you look errrrr.... toopid
thevil0ne 3 years ago
that wouldn't take away the data, a team of restorers can take the platters from the hard drive, put it back to gether, and get the fragments of data left, and retrieve most of the files because they only sawed it in half... best way to do it is to incenirate the drive...
Hassasin195 3 years ago 3
Hassasin195:
Not possible to recover... The read/write head "floats" 1/5000 the diameter of a human hair over the platters! :D
I would like to see somebody put it together so precisely!
cbader92 2 years ago
but it is possible. if they just cut it in half, then the team would put it on a new spindle, and run it. yes some of the data would be corrupted, but with some good de-coruption software, you could get most of the files back. I have heard of people that put the hard drive in a box of super strong neodymium magnets, de-corupted the hard drive, and it actually booted up, and almost all of the files were there! (some of the large video files had pauses in them, but for the most part worked fine! )
Hassasin195 2 years ago
It's not! Especially if the drive have multiple platters. If the platters are deferred from each other, more than a 1000th of a millimeter, no data will be recoverable!
In the teory, however, it will be possible to recover something, IF YOU COULD align the parts of the platter/platters...
cbader92 2 years ago
no, each platter could individually be read, and then the information across that platters would be re-constructed. there is a reason why this process costs almost twenty thousand dollars.
but it is still possible, even with half of the platter.
also, the platters don't need to be physically aligned, just digitally. so that is also possible, and the files can still be read (for the most part). even a shattered platter can be re-constructed to work.
Hassasin195 2 years ago 2
Have you ever talked to a hard drive rescue company?
Try to get a cheap hard drive, open it up, take out the platters, and ask your local (or not local) hard drive rescue company, if it's possible for them to read any data from them.
I would very much like to see that!
cbader92 2 years ago
I have contacted them, and they said that they will be able to get the data.
Quote from their website:
"Recovery of crashed hard disks often involves replacing failed or DAMAGED components in a clean environment (Clean room class 100) and using specialized hardware and software tools to create the raw image."
That means that they could re-build the platters, and get the ting up and running, and with software, piece MOST of the data back together.
Hassasin195 2 years ago
Hows that removing Data! its just destroying a hard drive! how do you remove fleas from your pet rabbit Kill it!!!!!!!
Belfastwars 3 years ago
you should wear safety goggles
jaymzanator 3 years ago 4
No, it will not blend. :P
jkltbnxdjfklgbkjsgbl 3 years ago
loosers
acevesandres 3 years ago
...But will it blend?
markmartelgoogle 3 years ago 5
Bytesmoke. Dont breathe it.
Vyggy 3 years ago 2
You guys think youre cool but your not why not recycle :(
Theirishnintendonerd 3 years ago 3
A sledge hammer would be quicker.
lar321 3 years ago
RECYCLE!!! :-|
nagarjun424 3 years ago 2